Those 'Mythical' Paris No-Go Zones: Recognized by NY Times, NBC, TNR
January 22nd, 2015 1:03 PM
The leftist press's truth squads apparently believe they have successfully intimidated any news organization which henceforth wants to be considered respectable from ever again referring to any Muslim-heavy enclave in Europe as a "no-go zone," regardless of the facts and circumstances.
Snopes.com, the self-appointed, almost invariably left-driven debunker of supposed "urban legends," doesn't…
Claims Wrong That 1,800+ Die from Binge Drinking, WaPo Column Says
January 21st, 2015 4:21 PM
Media outlets and politicians often fall for junk science and misleading statistics. This happened recently with alcohol-related death statistics, which The Washington Post exposed as factually incorrect.
Post reporter Glenn Kessler writes the newspaper's Fact Checker column. He debunked the claim that more than 1,800 college students die from "alcohol-related causes" or "alcohol poisoning" …
NYT Follows Lead of Left-Wing French Comedy Show to Pile on Fox News
January 20th, 2015 6:02 PM
The New York Times just can't stop using precious print space to attack rival news organization Fox News, based on an exaggerated claim about Muslim "no-go-zones" in England by a terrorism analyst who appeared on the channel after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Fueled by an obsessive anti-Fox crusade by a left-wing French comedy show, the latest story made Page 4.
NYT: Obama Aide Reads 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to Month-Old Daughter
January 20th, 2015 5:10 PM
According to the New York Times, Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, reads "To Kill a Mockingbird" to his month-old baby daughter. I kid you not.
NY Times Editorial Page Defends IRS in Tea Party Targeting Scandal
January 18th, 2015 7:42 PM
Sunday's New York Times editorial page came once again to the defense of the Internal Revenue Service against the depredations of congressional conservatives, even suggesting the IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups amounted to nothing: "...payback demanded by House Republicans to penalize the I.R.S. for daring to scrutinize Tea Party operations that tried to claim exemptions under the tax code…
Not News: Islamic State Brutally Executing Gays and Adulterers
January 18th, 2015 10:20 AM
The nation's establishment press is virtually ignoring the existence of horrifying and officially approved Islamic State videos showing the executions of accused homosexuals and adulterers.
A search this morning at Google News on "Islamic State gay" (with "Islamic State" in quotes, showing duplicates) for items appearing since January 14 returned 83 results. Roughly 30 of them are directly…
NYT's Alarmist Enviro Reporter Eagerly 'Undermines' Warming Skeptics
January 17th, 2015 8:52 AM
Justin Gillis, the New York Times most alarmist environmental reporter, eagerly "undermined" "climate-change contrarians" (the paper stopped calling it "global warming" when temperatures failed to cooperate) on Saturday's front page, under the headline "2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics." But a roundup of skeptical scientists emphasized that the "record high"…
NY Times Runs Full-Page Ad for Scientologists, Not Jihadist Critics
January 16th, 2015 12:12 PM
It’s fascinating to see The New York Times promoting a new left-wing documentary hit for HBO by noting the Church of Scientology has bought a full-page ad in The New York Times to fight it. (See page A-11.)
Reporter Alex Cieply did not have the integrity to note that the Times will take money from the atheists and the Scientologists, but won’t allow a full-page ad to attack Islamists (they…
NYT's Peters: GOP 'Callous, 'Cruel', and 'Unforgiving' to Illegals
January 15th, 2015 11:34 PM
The New York Times' long-standing support for amnesty for illegal immigrants -- and its contempt for the Republican Party's continued opposition -- leaped out of Thursday's front-page story by Jeremy Peters, a reporter whose hostility to the GOP is well-documented.
5 Reasons Libs Won’t Celebrate Religious Freedom Day Friday
January 15th, 2015 11:42 AM
Friday is National Religious Freedom Day, and what better time to consider where threats to American religious freedom originate. (Hint – it’s not with Bible-thumping Baptist preachers or dogmatic Catholic cardinals.)
Progressives, who love to congratulate themselves on their tolerance and pluralism, are increasing intolerant when it comes to religion – or Christianity, anyway. Muslims seem to…
New York Times to New GOP Congress: Don't Cross Obama
January 14th, 2015 11:55 AM
The New York Times' message to the new Republican congress? Don't cross Obama. That was the gist of three political stories on Wednesday. Sheryl Gay Stolberg's profile of grizzled Senate veteran John McCain included this harsh attack: "...despite hints that he is trying to reinvent himself from cantankerous Obama critic to elder statesman, Mr. McCain still seems to be in clobber mode."
Press Ignores Venezuelan Bishops' Strong Denunciation of Marxism
January 13th, 2015 7:30 PM
The latest report out of Venezuela by the Associated Press's Hannah Dreier has a time stamp of 1:15 p.m. today. This means that the wire service has had plenty of time to report, and has chosen not to report, a powerful pastoral letter issued yesterday by that country's Catholic bishops (original in Spanish; full Google Translation) denouncing that country's descent into a system they described…
Top Papers Bury Team Obama's Admission of Error on Paris Rally
January 13th, 2015 5:44 PM
The nation’s leading newspapers couldn’t be bothered with the controversy over Team Obama's no-show at the huge Paris "unity" rally on Monday morning, and then buried it on Tuesday. The Washington Post and The New York Times noticed France didn't seem to care.
NPR reporter Mara Liasson arrived on the story, but underlined "it's probably not that big a deal."
NYT Story on German ‘Anti-Islam’ March Fails to Interview Anyone There
January 13th, 2015 4:57 PM
In the Tuesday print edition of The New York Times, an article appeared on A11 about the “anti-Islam” and “anti-immigration rally in Germany” that took place in Dresden on Monday and, in addition to trashing their position, reporter Melissa Eddy failed to interview or quote any of the over 20,000 demonstrators.
Over course of the 650 word plus article, Eddy instead included quotes from Germany’…